Same time every year

July 29, 2010

  • “Omar Minaya may upgrade pitching, but middling New York Mets are better off waiting to make moves,” Filip Bondy, New York Daily News
  • “Forget about Mets dealing for Lily and Myers,” Joel Sherman, New York Post
  • “Time for Mets to make moves,” Larry Brooks, New York Post
  • “Top 10 New York Mets busts since 2001,” Bleacher Report

With the trading deadline just days (hours!) away (ESPN.com has a countdown clock), there’s a boatload of commentaries and articles like this floating around. Can’t recall so much buzz as I’ve seen this year. Part of that, of course, is the  the demand for 24/7 material (yeah, thanks a lot, MLB Network). Gotta fill the time somehow.

I imagine the situation is similar for a lot of teams (perhaps not the bottom-dwellers), but as a Mets fans, I can say I’m tired of the same old song. Minaya has alternately been castigated and given a free pass (“Hey,” some pundits wrote, “it wasn’t his fault that the team filled a entire wing at Queens General Hospital).

But when does that wear off? I’m not saying make change for change’s sake (although sometimes that’s not necessarily a bad thing), but the present situation — especially given the team payroll — is unacceptable, especially when compared with the relative success in recent years of teams with much smaller financial obligations.

Just sayin’.

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